2015 was a great year for L’Avenir with the release of Étoiles on Cold Beats Records early in the year and closing out 2015 with the Engineer E.P. on Beläten. Now 2016 doesn’t look to be any different on the creative front. Recording sessions have already begun with plans for a new full length album to be released later in the year. In the meantime, I’ve posted an early mix of a brand new cut taken from the first round of recording sessions. Thanks to everyone for buying the records and for all the support. Stay tuned, more to come…

I’m very happy to announce the release of the Engineer E.P. via the Swedish Beläten label on September 30, 2015. This will be L’Avenir’s second release for Beläten and the follow up to the recent album Étolies for Cold Beats Records earlier this year. Engineer will clock in at 30 minutes and feature 6 new tracks recorded between April and August 2015. Orders are now being taken over at the Beläten web shop. You can also now listen to a preview stream of the EP in it’s entirety at their Soundcloud.

Tracks:
1. Rise & Fall
2. Louder Than Words
3. Close Your Eyes (Remix)
4. New Day
5. Phantom
6. Armco

I’m very excited to announce Étoiles, the follow up album to “The Wait”, is now available via Cold Beats Records. This is a vinyl & digital only release and limited to 300 copies on beautiful black and white marbled wax. The vinyl features 8 new tracks plus 3 bonus tracks with the digital download.
Order your copy here.

L’Avenir – Étoiles
– Dénégation
– Fallow Land
– Until Then
– The Death Window
– Étoiles
– Lever du Soleil
– Ciel Noir
– Seven Times

Bonus Tracks:
– Enlightened
– 1958
– Dead Flowers

The Wait is now available on Barcelona’s Cold Beats Records on limited edition white vinyl. A few CD copies also remain and both include a digital download of the album. The self-titled follow up album [actually recorded before “The Wait”] is also available through the Post Avantgarde label Beläten on cassette and digital formats. See the post below for more info.

Order here: Cold Beats Records

What people are saying about “The Wait”:

“L’Avenir is the new name for the Synth Wave scene with his moody lyrics and heartfelt melodies. From start to finish L’Avenir has created dark and compelling tracks, works of eclipsed electronics with a remolded New Wave slant.”
– Igloo Magazine

“Sounds Fantastic!!”
– Sean McBride (Martial Canterel)

“A very fine and deep album. Upon first listen one of my favorite albums from last year by John Maus came to mind.”
– The Suicide of Western Culture

“An album that’s exquisitely sequenced, with opener “Umbra” setting the invitingly permafrost tone.”
– Baltimore City Paper

A long time coming but I’m very excited to announce the eponymously titled L’Avenir album is now available for pre-ordering (shipping Feb 28th) at Beläten. Digital downloads are available now. This album was recorded about six-eight months before “The Wait” so sonically, it marks an early stage of development in the progression of the L’Avenir sound.

From Beläten:
“Jason Sloan as a long history making ambient soundscapes, which is evident in L’Avenir’s dreamy, cinematic minimal synth. But through the hazy din of reverb-drenched atmospheres, melancholy pop gems appear. Simultaneously the preface and the follow up to last years The Wait (recorded before, released after), this cassette every bit as engaging. Song after song drip like a slow rain on empty city streets, the scent of wet asphalt in the air. L’Avenir’s music is heart-achingly beautiful and overpowering in it’s grandeur, yet somehow comforting and warm.”

–Physcial (ltd edition cassette)
–Download digital